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it is the minority groups seeking to challenge it, even though on paper it may look like they are raising a lot of money. in their own cases, it is their own money and it is not tax deductible. sylvester both mcmonkey mcbean and the star- part of aeetches are privileged class. the analogy in the case of mass incarceration, the privileged class of folks who are not as worried at about being incarcerated. middle toe iddle to -- upper class, wealthy, white, you're not as worried about being stopped, frist, incarcerated but there are groups that benefit even more
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among the privileged class. i think about the corporate contract that provides prisons with all the have. everybody from victoria's secret to dell computers have had private contract in prison that benefit from the prison complex. there is a certain group within the privileged class that benefit financially. in many00 cases to keep one person incarcerated. we all live in a state of fear so we opted that cost -- so we all pay that cost well as small percentage of the privilege to reap the profits financially. forave you done the show
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kids? communicateway to this to children? >> yes, last week. we had high-school students at a theater last friday then last february, we had high school students at the schomburg center for research in black culture. young folks are even more response of that anybody else. it is the first time they are seeing in a public space what they see every day in their communities. >> any other questions? further are no questions, i want to thank our panel of trade
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[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> remarks from the creator of the pan african holiday, kwanzaa. on aan actress with work child abuse. a discussion on human rights themes found in the riding of r. seuss -- in the writing of dr. seuss kerry >> -- dr. seuss. refu0 years ago, police sed to protect the marchers through the crowd got larger and larger. they were very unrly. they started to throw things at the women. they shout the things, told us to go home. street cars continue to of the continued to employ
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people in the crowd. the crowd got larger and more aggressive. the women could not go forward. police were not involved. the cover was called out to push back the crowd so the women could continue the peaceful exercise. today, this is a wonderful, peaceful assembly and this celebration of how far we have come in 100 years. rex a look at the centennial celebration of the woman's suffrage parade that took place on pennsylvania avenue in march, 1913. sunday at 7:00 eastern on c- span3. >> the creator of the pan african cultural holiday quanta david black history address -- consolidate on that date a black history and just at florida a&m university. maulana karenga is a professor at california state university in long beach. he is writing a book on malcolm
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x. this is 35 minutes. [applause] what news? it is always good news. it is good news to be at famu. and allf of my wife things good and beautiful, thank and mr. ryan.. robinson the public affairs officer of studentation and the
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government president and those responsible for the opportunity to share with you on this 2013 black history month, vacation. and conversation with our history, "advancing black and human history." let us start out by thanking the children for the pitiful performanc -- by thanking the children for that beautiful performance. we are honored to be here at this historic black college and we appreciate it to be among you. we say in our tradition, among us he will always find your family in a peaceful place and
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we wish blessings' without number and all good things without end. we bear witness as an african people that as are beginning was great and good, so shall our shallto our eternity be if we do justice and work in the path of righteousness. let us always pay homage to our ancestors, those who gave their lives so we could live stronger and more meaningful ones. we honor the best in ourselves. andonor those great ones mothersdinary people, and fathers gone now, our
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sisters and brothers, neighbors, who did not wear african clothes like me or remember the african language we can speak now. they were lifted out of their own history during the holocaust still theyent but taught us to be the best buy to keep us to speak truth, do justice, honor our elders and ancestors, care for the abominable among us, struggle against evil -- care for the vulnerable among us and struggle against evil. wilsonpay homage to dr. who urdged uged us to know our history. he taught us that at the heart
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of our history is a constant call to reject the catechism of human possibilities taught to us every day. this moment, black people must begin to do that ve -- to do the very thing they haven't talked they cannot do. he tells us study well for "truth comes to us from the past like gold washed down from the mountains." so our history is a very important thing. would like to quote from a sacred text which says let's do things with joy for surely he has been chosen to bring good into the world.
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is a fundamental mission and meaning in human life. we are constantly obligated to not let any good be lost. in this time of crisis, confrontation, war and waster, there is no greater challenge nor greater responsibility for us as an african people in honoring our history to constantly and eagerly struggle to bring and increase and sustain good in the world. as we come again this year to black history month, we should about and think deeply the world around us and ask how we as a people address the critical issues of our time. how do we engage this central commemoration and celebration so
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that it best serves its central colorado for do you see -- call for the reflected remembrance and steadfast recommitment to our highest values. speciald, this is a time which compels us to meditating on the meaning and awesome being obligation of being african in the world. what does it mean to be the elders of humanity, the people who stood up first and spoke the first human truth and taught the orld what was good and beautiful? iny all cme tame to study the nile valley.
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expanding realm of human freedom, social justice and human flourishing. struggle and the record of humans into the process of shaping the world in their own image and inches. the struggle for human freedom, social justice anstand at the head and heart of this struggle. we study indicate history at the people for several reasons. history'sle to learn lessons. history is x said, best prepared to reward our research. we study history to a store its spirit of human responsibility.
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garvey said -- as marcus said, what humans have done, humans can dol . errors and custodians of a great legacy -- we are heirs and custodians of a great legacy. mullahr to practice the -- the morality of his image. there are two things we should always care about -- never to forget where we came from and always praising the bridges that carry us over. the most ancient of human history is, there are three defining periods which offer
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lessons. there are other periods of similar destructive as but their inescapable -- there are other times but similar they are inescapable. of african history of introduces some of the basic principles of human knowledge. we built pyramids and temples of unsurpassed duty -- unsurpassed beauty. the declarations of virtue and medical texts.
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thealso present the world mother and father of medicine, imhotep. calendar.y the greatest legacy is our ethical legacy. the earliest concept of humans as possessors of dignity. it is the basis for our claims to human-rights. that and harris as defined by three basic characteristics -- that is the five by three basic characteristics -- that is defined by 3 bsiasic
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characteristics. all. equal in kinds and queens have no more than we. quens have no more than we. nobody can take it away from us. this is a principle we had when we came here. we felt it in our soul. we knew without knowing. that is what made harriet tubman stand up one day and say i need to be free. that is what it meant when she crossed the line and would not turn back around. teachour place where we
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immortality of the obligation to shield the world and make it more beautiful than we inherited it. the obligation also to care for to thenerable, give food hungry, close to the naked -- clothes to the naked. these lessons are clear and its suggestion that we cannot in good faith play the culture children of the world. it is a challenge for us for excellence. africa must mean excellence for it does not honor the name in
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history we know. the second period is the holocaust of enslavement. monstrous genocide, a against the people targeted but humanity itself. i want to call attention to using the word holocaust and enslavement as a moral issue of genocide. happened toall what us slave trade. it business calling gone bad with collaborate -- with collateral damage.
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we must -- [indiscernible] that expresses itself in three ways. the destruction of human life, the room was a killing -- the different ways of killing. burning them alive, skinning them alive. the destruction of human culture. notjust a small houses -- just of small houses but the destruction of nations, cities, marks of art, literature, music and the peoples who made those. the destruction of impossibility. but the people out of their own
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history and making them a footnote -- lifting people out of their own history and making them a footnote. when those people see them, they call them names. do we need toe rise up from that? how is it that we have come this far? this society is led by one of us who came from the very society that has saved us. [applause] that is a great achievement. .e cannot underrate it i'll come back to that in a minute. of course, you understand that
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andhis sense, human culture human possibility. this enslavement stands alongside the holocaust of native americans and native asked really answered, the they facedenians, -- , itatter how horrendous nevertheless seared into her consciousness. we extracted lessons and challenges of continuing and compelling importance. what are the lessons? the witness to the horrors of the holocaust and to resist the temptation.
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as in movies recently or in the media or in the academy, we must interpret our own history. . were history is too important -- our history is too important. there is no history of more holy, no people more sacred, no no more or more the -- worthy to tell than our own. [applause] toond, we must remember teaching the example of un- suppressed and unsurpassed durability and the vitality and capacity for place making and struggle of this evil injustice and oppression. there is no more beautiful narrated than that narrated of
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harry tubman -- harriet tubman. asked questions and seek answers to the fundamental issues of humankind. we look at harriet tubman not as but fored reference, telling us what we should do today. let me show you how. harry tubman -- harriet tubman -- made to not come in from the sea. they come from inside us. imagine freedom in an unfree situation? how do we do that? inside us is a dignity, this worthiness that calls on us to be free. we are born in freedom and it is others that enslave us. we must struggle against all
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forms of an strange man in order to maintain our freedoms. here is harriet tubman. thehes us how to read stars. you move so well. we cannot even hear you move. in fact you move like a ninja. ok. she is getting ready. she gets ready and she goes across the line. listen to the beauty of this narrated. this is our history unfolding in front of us. it is relevant today as it was yesterday and it will be tomorrow. she steps across the lines of freedom. she says, freedom feels so good. the sun was coming through the trees and touching the leaves. i looked at my hand and mcafee
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-- and my feet. i thought to myself, i must be in heaven. then she became sad because all the people she loves were back there in the plantations. she declared she was spend the rest of her life freeing the people who were back there so they could share the goodness that she felt. in that moment, the pope, she redefined freedom for individual escape for the collective practice of self- determination in our community. [applause] we must remember to remember these names. all of thoseglas, people too numerous to name,
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they have stories to inform us how to walk in dignity. there are ways of walking in the world. we must make sure we do not let ango.gga booinh with dj -- publicmpel dollars. repairingle can know of grievous injuries. that is the holocaust of enslavement and that of the quintess of that.
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second, we need a public admission, that is holocaust. not slavery or slave trade, but holocaust. genocide. we need a public apology. don't apologize me in till i tell you what to apologize for. you know what i'm saying? we define it ourselves. you know what i'm saying? ok. we have to have that. we need public recognition. recognition means dealing with and teaching in schools and in the universities. the horror and meaning of this holocaust. to this country into the world. next comes compensation. , butuld be not just money
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free health. free education. we need to talk about how to do that. [applause] we learn from this is that we have to deal with structures so that this thing will not happen again. you think it won't happen again , but so did the japanese. they did not think it would happen. if they didn't do anything, how did they end up in internment camps? how about the patriot act? they could not be mentioned. who would think america would do that? the outsiders, no telling what they will do. we have been the moral and social vanguard of this country. we have struggled, at one with
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our allies, victories that not only benefited us but extended the realm of freedom in this country. we cannot remain silent when other people are suffering. [applause] simply because we feel -- i will talk about this more in a minute. we feel we might hurt our president. i will get back to it and do more with it. first, we have to continue the struggle against our form of slavery. psychological and chemical. against all forms of oppression. racism, classism, sexism and all other things associated with white supremacy. black history offers us an abundance of lessons on struggle. what i call the reaffirmation. by that i mean i'm a it is a
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time in which we reaffirm both our african roots and/or social justice tradition. speaking truth to power. struggling for the liberation of the oppressed. it is in this period that we expanded freedom for ourselves. challenging the countries most backward and barbaric laws. we also challenged the academy to move from its perception of education. they'll black studies departments and programs and open the way for emergence of other ethnic studies. we demanded an education with linked campus and community. we aided the justice of the good and just society.
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which now appears as a dialogue of multiculturalism. we have to watch that multiculturalism, because if you allow other people to define it, it can come out against us. even though we are the ones who open its eyes and said to the europeans, america is not a white finished product, but an ongoing multicultural project. these people have the right and responsibility -- to make their own unique contribution to how the society is reconceived and reconstructed. that is the essence of it areas if we cannot do that, we have food, festival, and fashion. [applause] multiculturalism is intense and deep appreciation for diversity, which expresses itself first in
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respect for each people and culture as a unique and equally valid and valuable way of being human in the world. as i said earlier am a mutual respect for people's rights and responsibility to seek the truth and make their own unique contribution to how the society is conceived and reconstructed. it is a mutual commitment to the constant search for common ground in the universe. it is a mutual commitment to the ethics of sharing the responsibility for building the good world we all want. and deserve to live in. we lost and won with our allies, as i said earlier. struggles have reshaped the course and content of u.s. society. around the world, south africa, the philippians, south america, china, eastern europe, palestine and recently, the revolt in
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northern africa call the arab spring. the people struggling therefore liberation and peace. they built on more vocabulary and vision and post our struggle as a model to emulate. our lessons and challenges are to continue the struggle of the '60's it is to expand the concept and practice of freedom and pose a new paradigm of how humans relate to each other. it is to start a new history of humankind. to do that, we must lead. we must reach inside ourselves and think new thoughts. think in a self-determined, dignity affirming, life enhancing way.
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we are, in this current era, we are confronted with an awesome challenge to continue, unfinished historic and ongoing struggles to constantly expand street realm of human freedom, social justice in the world. although we can rightly be proud of having elected a black president and see it as a historical achievement of our people in our struggle for freedom, justice and equity, the struggle continues. we cannot see it as an end in itself. nor can we be confused and think that the election of one man, the election of the man with the need for a rebuilding of a movement for profound and radical change of society. and for bringing good in the world. m

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